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a.A resident or nonresident person required to have a hunting or fur harvester license
shall not hunt or trap unless the person purchases a hunting or fur harvester license that
includesthewildlifehabitatfee,inanamountestablishedbyrulesadoptedbythecommission
pursuant to section 483A.1.
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b.Residents who have permanent disabilities or who are younger than sixteen or older
than sixty-five years of age may purchase a hunting or fur harvester license that does not
include the wildlife habitat fee.
c.All wildlife habitat fees shall be administered in the same manner as hunting and
fur harvester licenses except all revenue derived from wildlife habitat fees shall be used
within the state of Iowa for habitat development and shall b
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1. a. A resident or nonresident person required to have a hunting or fur harvester license
shall not hunt or trap unless the person purchases a hunting or fur harvester license that
includesthewildlifehabitatfee,inanamountestablishedbyrulesadoptedbythecommission
pursuant to section 483A.1.
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b. Residents who have permanent disabilities or who are younger than sixteen or older
than sixty-five years of age may purchase a hunting or fur harvester license that does not
include the wildlife habitat fee.
c. All wildlife habitat fees shall be administered in the same manner as hunting and
fur harvester licenses except all revenue derived from wildlife habitat fees shall be used
within the state of Iowa for habitat development and shall be deposited in the state fish and
game protection fund, except as provided in subsection 2. The revenue may be used for the
matching of federal funds. The revenues and any matched federal funds shall be used for
acquisition of land, leasing of land, or obtaining of easements from willing sellers for use
as wildlife habitats. Notwithstanding the exemption provided by section 427.1, any land
acquiredwiththerevenuesandmatchedfederalfundsshallbesubjecttothefullconsolidated
levy of property taxes, which shall be paid from the income generated from those lands or, if
no such income is generated, from the wildlife habitat fee revenues. In addition the revenue
may be used for the development and enhancement of wildlife lands and habitat areas.
d. Not less than three dollars from each wildlife habitat fee shall be allocated as specified
in section 483A.3B and not less than fifty percent of the balance of each fee shall be used by
the commission to enter into agreements with county conservation boards or other public
agencies in order to carry out the purposes of this section. However, the state share of
funding of those agreements provided by the revenue from wildlife habitat fees shall not
exceed seventy-five percent.
2. Up to sixty percent of the revenues from wildlife habitat fees which are not required
under subsection 1 to be used by the commission to enter into agreements with county
conservation boards or other public agencies may be credited to the wildlife habitat bond
fund as provided in section 483A.53.
3. Notwithstanding subsections 1 and 2, any increase in wildlife habitat fee revenues
collected on or after December 15, 2018, pursuant to this section as a result of wildlife
habitat fee increases established by rules adopted pursuant to section 483A.1, shall be used
by the commission for any of the purposes set forth in this section or in section 483A.3B,
except that such increases in revenues collected shall not be used by the commission for the
purpose of land acquisition. The commission shall not reduce on an annual basis for these
purposes the amount of other funds being expended as of December 15, 2018.
4. A multi-year hunting license purchased pursuant to section 483A.9A, includes the
payment of a wildlife habitat fee for each of the years for which the license is valid and those
fees shall be used as provided in this section.